Ads for rental apartments are posted on the window of a real estate agent’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y., during the summer of 2022. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Generation Z and millennials have come of age during periods of financial uncertainty, from the recession in the early 2000s to the […]
Will GrantMexico Correspondent and Chris GrahamBBC News Watch: Demonstrations in Mexico on International Day of the Disappeared Thousands of people have held protests across Mexico to highlight the country’s many enforced disappearances and demand more action by officials to tackle them. Relatives and friends of missing people, as well as human rights activists, marched through […]
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party will remove all net zero requirements on oil and gas companies drilling in the North Sea if elected. Badenoch is to formally announce the plan to focus solely on “maximising extraction” and to get “all our oil and gas out of the North Sea” in a speech […]
Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025 Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has cancelled a trip to China, as deadly antigovernment protests spread outside the capital, and social media platform TikTok suspended its live feature, citing concerns over the “increasing violence” in the Southeast Asian country. The announcement by Prabowo’s spokesman came on Saturday as Indonesian […]
Michael Sheils McNameeBBC News Tear gas and firecrackers: BBC reports from Jakarta protests Three people have been killed after protesters set fire to a council building in eastern Indonesia, amid nationwide demonstrations over the death of a ride-sharing driver. Affan Kurniawan, 21, was run over by a police vehicle in Jakarta during earlier protests about […]
President Trump announces his global tariffs at a Rose Garden event at the White House on April 2. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An appeals court ruled that most of President Trump’s tariffs are illegal — but held off on enforcing the decision until mid-October, given expectations that it will […]
Simon DedmanBBC East political reporter, Epping, Helen BurchellBBC News, Essex and James ChaterBBC News Reuters Three men were arrested during a protest outside The Bell Hotel in Epping on Friday, after the Court of Appeal overturned a temporary injunction that blocked asylum seekers from being housed there. Essex Police said the men were arrested on […]
Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Calamine lotion can be used to help relieve the itchiness of chickenpox spots Young children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will soon be offered a free chickenpox vaccine on the NHS. It will be added to the list of standard childhood vaccinations from January 2026, and […]
Microsoft says the terminations followed serious breaches of company policies amid claims that its software is used by Israeli army in Gaza. Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025 Microsoft has fired four employees who participated in protests on company premises over the firm’s ties to Israel, including two who took part in a sit-in […]
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled on Thursday that administration official Kari Lake had overstepped in firing the director of Voice of America. In this photo, Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, in February in Oxon Hill, Md. Jose Luis Magana/AP/FR159526 AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP/FR159526 AP A […]